Meghan - 3rd House
Here’s the third installment of “The Meghan Project”. It’s about 900 words long, and really should be around 800! so please let me know what you think is most interesting … (Don’t forget to use the glossary if there are terms that are unfamiliar).
3 Third House
The third house represents a person’s peers and younger siblings. It shows their courage, hobbies and skills. In this chart, the third house has only one indication for prosperity which is the fact that Venus (a benefic) is posited in the house. There are four indications for annihilation including the houselord not aspecting its own house, being with two malefics and a maraka houselord. Because the balance is in favour of annihilation, the area of life relating to peers may have difficulty flourishing.
3.1 Person’s Life Experience
Meghan has no younger siblings. Her peers and friends include many celebrities (Friedman 2019). Megan’s hobbies are solitary pursuits such as calligraphy, letter writing, cooking and yoga. Her courage is shown by being an activist (Picard 2020) and an independent woman (i.e. financially successful, famous in her own right, running her own website/brand, walking down the aisle alone).
3.2 Sign
The third house of this person’s chart takes place in Virgo. Virgo is a mutable earth sign. It represents the belly of the Creator. It is of the Trader caste. Meghan’s hobby of cooking and “being a foodie” (Picard 2020) is supported by Virgo’s tamasic earthiness and its rulership of the belly. Mercury, being the lord of hobbies in the second house of the palate, contributes as well.
3.3 Planet
Mercury is the ruler of the third house of this chart. Mercury is moist and rajasic. It is of the earth element and mixed dosha. It is benefic and malefic depending on the company it keeps and is playful and can see both sides of an argument. It is witty, analytical and a karaka for communication, speech, writing, analysis, short journeys, task management and friendship. Like Virgo, Mercury is part of the Trader caste.
Mercury is in neutral dignity in this chart. It is exalted in the D7 providing an excellent ability to manage a person’s creative legacy. This is demonstrated by Meghan creating her own career, brand and website. Mercury is being delighted, agitated and shamed by the Sun. It is not being attacked by any other planets and has more than 100% Shad bala. It has a strong positive yoga score showing that it has the potential to manifest good outcomes in the right yogas.
Meghan’s hobbies of letter writing and calligraphy match with Mercury’s karakaship of communication and writing.
That her circle of peers includes celebrities reflects Mercury being located with Sun which delights it by increasing friendship opportunities with significant and influential people. However, the Sun is also agitating Mercury because they are located in the same sign. This can make the ‘greatness’ (Sun) qualities more important than the ‘friendship’ (Mercury) qualities and lead the person to not have proper boundaries with friends or see friends for who they truly are. A notorious quote about Meghan’s approach to friendships is “She’s not a person you can actually be friends with. She’s the type of person who is best friends with her stylist.” (Grigoriadis 2018) The fact that this is perceived unfavourably by some as social-climbing could refer to the Trader caste shared by Virgo and Mercury. This combination naturally connects friendships with trading and improving one’s position, not in a conniving way but just as a function of the game of life.
Mercury is also in a shamed avastha with the Sun and Rahu in the second house and this is described in the previous blog post (section 2.4.2).
3.4 Planets in the Third House
3.4.1 Venus
Meghan’s calligraphy skills combine Mercury’s love of writing with Venus’s good taste. Her hobby of yoga fits with Venus’s role in regenerating the body and connecting a person to higher fulfillment.
In the third house of peers, Venus is helping Meghan create friendships through its skills in diplomacy and good taste. Its role is to lead a person towards higher fulfillment and this can also be seen as contributing to viewing peers as commodities that are to be valued and chosen wisely.
Venus is debilitated in this chart and that may impair Meghan’s ability to select what is valuable. This is important because the field in which friendship is growing is tamasic Virgo, so friends may have backgrounds that are damaged. Venus is also ruling the 11th House of influential friends and peers and this neatly explains Meghan’s involvement with the Soho club “an exclusive club drawing (in) the … film, social and banking set.” (Grigoriadis 2018)
3.5 Bhava Yogas
3.5.1 Ascendant Yogas
Mercury rules the 3rd and 12th houses for a Cancer ascendant. Meghan’s long association with charitable service is explained by the 12th house (charity) and the 3rd house (a person’s interests). The fact that Meghan is well known for serving at soup kitchens (Picard 2020) demonstrates the foodie connections established by Mercury, Venus and Virgo and the 3rd and 12th lords.
3.5.2 3rd in the 2nd
Due to Mercury’s positive situation (see section 3.3) there are many successful outcomes from the bhava yoga of 3rd lord in the 2nd house. For example, Meghan has been able to support herself through her skills in acting and calligraphy (N.B. use of hands is also a 3rd house trait). She is self-motivated to be financially independent and is friends with people she works with. Even her interest in cooking is indicated by this yoga.
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